Es mediodía en los estudios Smashbox de Culver City de Los Ángeles y Samuel L. Jackson (Washington, 1948) está que se sale. El hombre que más improperios ha lanzado en la historia del cine –con permiso de Joe Pesci– lleva una hora posando para las cámaras de ICON y se le ve notablemente cómodo frente a los focos. Se muestra divertido. Irradia una mezcla de carisma e intimidación. Resulta curioso ver en este contexto al tipo que recitaba Ezequiel 25:17 y mataba a discreción en Pulp fiction, que era devorado por un tiburón tras dar un memorable discurso sobre la supervivencia en Deep blue sea, era un negro esclavista en Django desencadenado o atravesaba Central Park en un taxi sin frenos en Jungla de cristal: La venganza. La sesión le ha impedido comer a su hora habitual. Se lanza sobre un plato de ensalada y legumbres y, quizá porque la vida sería un gris trámite si no nos permitiéramos alegrías puntuales, una enorme galleta de chocolate.

With 67 years, does it cost to motivate yourself?No way.The cinema is the main means in which I work, and the performance is my life, but it would be just as happy doing a play or a television series.While doing something creative ... I've always wanted to think that I'm like a writer or painter.And in this life you get a limited number of opportunities to do things.I want to continue taking advantage of all the possible ones.

He says he likes to create, but he has not tried to direct.Direct is a type of creation that I don't feel like exploring.I don't like the control that requires.You have to look at the same things daily, you have to eliminate scenes, you have to worry about music and all aspects of production.At that time I can make five movies, so I'm not interested.

This month premieres the legend of Tarzan, where once again it is part of a choral cast.Don't you miss having had more protagonist roles?Nope.I never look at the size of the character inside the story.That is not what attracts me about the script.I don't need everything to turn around me.I like the characters that, when appearing, improve the story.

Jackson has two undeniable passions in the placid and extremely private life that is proud to take between New York and Los Angeles.First is the golf, to the point that a clause usually adds in his contracts that allows him to play during the filming.Then is Latanya Richardson, with which he has been married 36 years.The couple has a daughter, Zoe, 34.This makes him a unique case of domestic stability and physical and mental health in Hollywood.Far are the disruption times that led him to a detoxification clinic just before shooting with Spike Lee Jungle Fever (1991), where he faithfully embodied a cocainómano.

You will probably be remembered for your films with Quentin Tarantino, but it was Spike Lee who gave him his first opportunities.I worked a lot with Spike, but it has always been something reciprocal.At first we helped ourselves a lot: he always surrounded himself from the same people and was lucky to have very well formed people who came from the theater.We knew what had to be done: Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn and I.We had all worked before he arrived and we made his films better.He was lucky to count on us.Spike and I have a good relationship, but he knows that with worse actors I would not have been so successful.I tell him all the time.And he is not blind;He knows perfectly.

When you grew up, you admired Sidney Paitier.Do you intimidate think that there are young actors who want to be like you?I liked Sidney because he wanted to embody such memorable characters as his own, but not necessarily follow the same path.I came to Hollywood without the slightest idea what to expect or how to drive myself because it came from the theater.People usually have plans and objectives.I didn't even know what my way was going to be or how I had to behave.But I hope that if someone looks at my career, study the characters, the movies, the stories ... you have to tell important things.Now many want to be famous and now.Fame has something to do with what I do, but very little.I did not become famous for being controversial, handsome, sympathetic or muscular, but because I did things that were entertaining and culturally relevant.People paid to see the work they had done.Fame was a consequence.

What do you think of the controversy about the absence of black actors in the Oscar of the last edition?I did not name me but I did, once again, a work that should be recognized.I think the hateful eight was great and that I was a fucking mother.They didn't name me, okay, but I'm already used to.We have been like that.They could have given me the Oscar for Pulp Fiction, right?The study decided that John Travolta was as best actor and I as a secondary.I did not understand.Why should it be so if our papers were equally important?And then Martin Landau goes and wins by Ed Wood.Martin is an acceptable actor.People told me: “They have already nominated several times, you're going to spend a lot of time in Hollywood.The time will come to you ".What the pussy?Do you have to name you five times and lose all so that you win for a film that eight people saw and nobody seems wrong?Not even all academics saw her."It's Martin Landau: let's do a favor!".That leads me to always pass, from Jungle Fever.I assume that they will not name me and I don't care.If any, great.And if not, people will still remember that I made some movies in my career.No one will forget that I was in this business.It's okay.Awards do not weigh on my conscience.

Jackson is one of Hollywood's most politically active personalities and in his youth it was even more, to the point that, as a member of the Black Power movement, he retained the Board of Directors of the Morehouse University (Atlanta) - including the father ofMartin Luther King– as Hostages for two days to force them to include more courses on African -American history.Recently he wrote in Vanity Fair an article about his own experience as a black man in Hollywood.He remembered a play in which he worked during the filming of Pulp Fiction.One night, after acting, he went to dinner with friends.At the exit, they stayed a while talking on the street and, suddenly, they were surrounded by five police cars.The agents pointed them with guns and forced them to lie down.

What responds when asked about racism?People look and judge with their eyes.Not only here, around the world.People always say that racism in the US.UU.it's a problem.And yes, racism is clearly a problem, but surely the same happens everywhere.There are people who look at another and feel superior to him.Where will it come from?I don't know, but it has happened throughout history.Maybe from the crusades of the Christians, who saw blacks as savages.There are people who do not like those who do not look like and believe they are lower.Not everyone thinks so, although clear leather, they are usually believed superior to the dark ones.It is a strange shit!

What is most annoyed in your country?That we do not deal with our elders.They dedicated their lives to building this country, to do their best to raise their relatives and leave a better panorama for the new generations.They are the country's dorsal spine.And we, meanwhile, spend a lot of time discussing how to take more services to the elderly.They take the aid, healthcare ... as if we limit ourselves to waiting for them to die and disappear view.

Do you think there is hope?I would like to.There was a time when these things did worry us.Politicians are filled with their mouths talking about "making América Grande" [electoral slogan of Republican Donald Trump].Well, start respecting those who did it.I hope we would find a way to unite old and small.We would have a much better country.The elderly love the little ones and the children would acquire an unpayable historical conscience.They are open and affectionate, they are not born discriminating.I hope a system is established that allows them to connect and reinforce each other.I do not know if it will be possible, because that type of middle class work no longer exists.

Perhaps some of the passion of his words is due to the fact that he was raised by his grandparents and his aunt in Chattanooga (Tennessee), a town marked by racial segregation.His mother, Elizabeth, spent a lot of time out of work and his father, alcoholic, abandoned him as a child.He says they agreed in the same room no more than twice.

Success was late: he was 46 years old when Pulp Fiction.How would I have handled it in your youth?Not very good.When I could only dream of being a winner, I already had enough problems in New York with alcohol and drugs.I imagine that I would have burned quickly in Hollywood.But things come when they have to get there, not before.Being a young man today would be crazy.I handle my social networks myself and, I still have to think before giving the send button.Imagine the follies that I would commit today being young.They would be huge scandals.Fame fames everything in that aspect.

30 minutes have passed and his publicist enters to warn that it will be the last question, so we take the opportunity to know if he has seen the compilation video of all his Motherfuckers, especially fucking son of a son of a bitch, the word with which he is most associatedIn original version, to the point that the director of snakes on the plane, in 2007, he had to improvise a scene a few weeks after the premiere in which his character exclaimed the happy word."I have it kept on my mobile!"."And they don't all appear, huh?".

Do you feel reflected when you see all those pimples?Not everyone is angry.Several are among colleagues, or with a surprise tone, hate, anger ... is a motorfucker used in all the imaginable senses of the word.When Sir Laurence Olivier died, I was on my floor, watching that on television they talked about their characters and spent a gallery of all their characterizations.There I thought: "That's what I want to do!": Put on wigs, disguise myself, transform me ... and this assembly is almost the same applied to all movies I have made.When I see that people recite my dialogues, I really feel proud of it.